YA READY FOR YOUR TURKEY DINNER?

what is thanksgiving if not a celebration of our complicity in ritualized cruelty

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what is thanksgiving if not a celebration of our complicity in ritualized cruelty

― Tip from Tae Kwon Do: (crüt), Wednesday, November 27, 2013 2:30 PM (1 minute ago)

you don't have to celebrate with your family if they are that awful

my menu tomorrow:
Harvest Enchiladas
Raw Walnut Pecans Loaf
Cream Cheese and Spinach Tamales
Quinoa and Cranberry Stuffing Tamales
Marshmallow and Sweet Potato Tamales
Pumpkin Spice Tamales
Baked Vegetable and Fusilli
Classic Green Beam Casserole
Herb Mashed Potatoes
Mashed Garlic and Rosemary Sweet Potatoes
Apple Veggie Sausage Stuffing
Pumpkin Curry
Orange Pecan Cranberry Sauce
Kale Cranberry Salad
House Salad
Blue Corn and Cheddar Muffins
Pumpkin Chocolate Cheesecake
Raw Pecan Pie
Pumpkin Cheesecake
Pumpkin Bavarian Cream Cupcakes

doing our own homemade stuff tonight, tho

i'm making a tres leche cake to bring to my friend's party :)

tonight I am making a peanut butter pie
tomorrow morning I'm making a pumpkin pie

fin

not sure what everyone else is making -- it's a potluck at the noise show co-op I belong to, but I'm bringing/making:

garlic bread - (olive oil/garlic/smoked paprika)
mixed green salad with roasted beets and clementine oranges
silk nog + bourbon

Mashed Garlic and Rosemary Sweet Potatoes
Apple Veggie Sausage Stuffing
Pumpkin Curry
Orange Pecan Cranberry Sauce

delicious!!!

m bise yr menu sounds so harvesty and colorful

yum

i am so ready for my turkey dinner. it's a potluck that an old college friend is hosting.

i'm making these:

http://www.chow.com/recipes/30794-slow-cooker-collard-greens (braised with roasted turkey drumsticks)
http://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/cornbread-muffins-with-maple-butter (minus the maple butter)

I want to smoke a turkey just for those greens. It's all over up here to the north of y'all, though. Did visit DC last week and got a surprise early thanksgiving dinner with friends, which was lovely.

yeah, i don't have a smoker. i dry-brined the turkey for three days and then roasted it at 400 degrees.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw9sQ98s9AE

I'm going to some restaurant with my grandparents

I'm going to throw some trash off of a cliff and get arrested

^^^^

made brisket and latkes last night for chanukah, my partner's mom is in charge of today, apparently turkey is involved

another three hours to go!

m bise yr menu sounds so harvesty and colorful

yum

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, November 27, 2013 4:42 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it was amazing, i ate all the tamales, this restaurant owns

they used blue masa, so fancy

!

We went to...
wait for it...

Cracker Barrel

boom

Had fish

DON'T PANIC I'M ENGLISH

I am full of all the t'giving things.

I ate tacos

so much leftovers :D :D

IT APPROACHES

I'm making a maple-pumpkin pie with pecan streusel (except instead of pumpkin I roasted and pureed a butternut squash and puree)
and also homemade cranberry sauce with orange zest, vanilla, and cinnamon

going to be with my family at our traditional thanksgiving getaway at Sanibel Island, Florida for the first time in several years, we will be picking up thanksgiving dinner from the supermarket, I'm pretty pleased.

Oh man, a few years ago I went to my dad's in Rehoboth and we ordered it too (there was OYSTER STUFFING!!!!) and we got sooooo baked and ate everything like the weird mud demon from Spirited Away

ordering food is the best

Will be hosting the family gathering (me, my sister, our mother, my sister's boyfriend, and his mother).

Turkey
Scallop and mushroom casserole (my sister doesn't eat meat or poultry)
Mashed potatoes
Turkey gravy
Mushroom gravy (to be made by my sister)
Stuffing or dressing or whatever you call it, I never ate it while I was growing up (to be made by my mother)
Brussel sprouts with chestnuts
Salad (not certain about this)
Pumpkin cheesecake (to be made by my sister)
Assorted pies (to be made by Ben's mother)

I've hosted similar Thanksgivings two out of the last three years. It's not difficult, but I'm not looking forward to the last-minute scramble.

All done with Thanksgiving in October over here, but going over to our American postdoc's place for dinner. Bringing a side dish, but don't know what yet as they haven't decided what they're cooking...

Nor'easter maximizing travel/planning panic in the BosWash Corridor!

Sunday NY Times featured hostage negotiators explaining how to talk to your family.

"amen."
…
"can you pass that over to - thank you."
…
…
"hmm. this is good.'
"can I have another one of those?"
…
…
"so."
"about those rioters in -"
"WELL ALL RIGHT! WE'LL SEE YOU ALL NEXT YEAR! BYE!"

Looking forward to never eating this trash bird again

It's our national trash bird.

i really want to spatchcock one of these fuckers.

garbage fowl

turkey is amazing and i look forward to eating it every year.

we will be picking up thanksgiving dinner from the supermarket, I'm pretty pleased.

we're doing this too -- it's a sort-of tradition whenever i don't feel like committing the time/expense/amount of dishes and pans to a homemade thanksgiving dinner with all the fixings. plus i'm supposed to be watching my weight so this keeps the leftovers to a minimum.

inlaws are buying the spread from wholefoods again this year

which would be fine, the food p dece except inlaws willfully ignore the fact that their oven is total garbage and has been for three years running now. i swear it take 9 times longer to reheat everything, and they get shitty with us for reminding them that it happens every year

but yay food & yay macy's parade :)

It's just the three of us, but I've decided to go traditional anyway - turkey breast, stuffing, brussel sprouts, macaroni and cheese, cranberry sauce. Then on Friday we're having leftover turkey, stuffing, and cranberry sauce sandwiches.

i made cranberry sauce for 20 for the office potluck and~ 5% of it got eaten. wtf do it with it? put it on turkey sandwiches?

i meant "wtf do i do with it"?

That would work, but you'll get sick of it before long. Do you bake? Maybe make some kind of tart with it.

the cranberry sauce never gets eaten. :-(

sick of being at thanksgivings that are too hoity toity for good old canned cranberry sauce (the best)

I am ready for stuffing, and laughter, and not being online for most of a day.